Tipperary planners refuse permission for homes behind former pub
Tipperary County Council has refused permission for two new homes in Mullinahone, ruling that the plans would not meet the housing needs of the community.
The proposed development of homes in Mullinahone would be a “piecemeal, disorderly, haphazard form of development” if it was allowed to go ahead, council planners have said.
Eamonn O'Shea applied to Tipperary County Council for planning permission to convert former stables to the rear of a pub on Carrick Street in Mullinahone into two new homes.
The development would have seen two houses built, one two-storey, two-bedroom house, along with another single-storey, one-bedroom home.
The former stables sit to the rear of a former pub in the town, and “is located within a complex of buildings on a brownfield town centre site,” according to planning files.
"The buildings on the site are generally in a poor state of repair and the hard-surfaced areas are unkept and overgrown in places. This application does not include for proposals for the balance of the site,” a council planner noted.
Tipperary County Council refused planning permission for the development of the houses.
In a refusal letter, the local authority said that the development would “constitute a piecemeal, disorderly, haphazard form of development,” due to the lack of any outside space for the proposed residents of the new homes.
The development “would not meet the housing needs of the community and does not provide a sufficient level of amenity to the future occupants of the dwellings proposed,” planners added.